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Involution n.

The act of involving or infolding.

The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement. "All things are mixed, and causes blended, by mutual involutions."

That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope.

(Gram.) The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction.

(Math.) The act or process of raising a quantity to any power assigned; the multiplication of a quantity into itself a given number of times; the reverse of evolution.

(Geom.) The relation which exists between three or more sets of points, a.a´, b.b´, c.c´, so related to a point O on the line, that the product Oa.Oa´ = Ob.Ob´ = Oc.Oc´ is constant. Sets of lines or surfaces possessing corresponding properties may be in involution.

(Med.) The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy.

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Etymology of 'Involution'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Involution" Quotes from Famous Books

... intelligible in the example of Time and Space, these being both the first specification of the principle, and ever after its indispensable symbols. First, a single act of self-inquiry will show the impossibility of distinctly conceiving the one without some involution of the other; either time expressed in space, in the form of the mathematical line, or space within time, as in the circle. But to form the first conception of a real thing, we state both as one in the idea, duration. The formula is: (ABBA)(AA) or the oneness ...

— Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... of this sudden development of Stukely's popularity was that Cave united his destiny with the new favourite, and such an involution of parties took place that "Stukely and Cave" joined hand in hand and heart to heart, while poor Howell Gwynne and myself were abandoned as useless candidates. At one o'clock it was clear that I must be ...

— The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) • Henry Hawkins Brampton

... by an involution of the skin with a growth of hair on the inner wall of the sac. It may become embedded deeply in the subcutaneous tissues or may just penetrate the thickness of the skin, where it is movable and painless. They are generally found ...

— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... gland begins to diminish in size towards the end of the second year, and by the time puberty is reached it has entirely disappeared. In some cases, however, the process of involution fails to take place, and the gland may even undergo hyperplasia and exert pressure on the trachea, the great blood vessels, or the left vagus nerve and its recurrent branch. The enlargement of ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

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